Richard Giarusso
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An award-winning teacher, Dr. Giarusso is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Peabody Conservatory, where he also serves as a Dean’s Fellow.

​The breadth of his knowledge and expertise is demonstrated by the range of his teaching at Peabody, including three of four undergraduate survey courses, graduate seminars on Berlioz, Wagner, Brahms, Mahler, Venetian music, and English music of the twentieth century, undergraduate music appreciation courses at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University, and interdisciplinary classes on music and literature for the Master of Liberal Arts program at JHU. Dr. Giarusso received the Excellence in Teaching Award from JHU’s Division of Advanced Academic Programs.

Courses

Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination
German Song in the Nineteenth Century 
20th-Century Opera
Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
Symphonies of Johannes Brahms
Symphonies of Gustav Mahler 
Wagner
The English Musical Renaissance
Music in Venice
Between Romanticism and Modernism
The Symphonic Century 
Introduction to Western Classical Music

richard giarusso

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  • About
  • Conducting
  • Singing
  • Teaching
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